Union High School - Bobcat Yearbook (Union, OR)

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 M Many is the time we have heard the expression, “There is nothing new under the sun,” but on the eventful day of September the eighth, in the year of out Lord, one thousand nine hundred and thirty six, twenty eight geniuses entered the J. F. Hutchinson Elementary school. Out of the original twenty-eight, only seven have stayed to welcome the new and bid the old ones goodbye. They are: Richard Westenskow, who likes to stay home from school to make model airplanes; Forrest Turner, the Freshman girls dreumboy; Earl Holcomb, a woman hater; Beverly Laam, our comedy actress; Anna Lee Bingham, now known as Mrs. James Evans, Carolyn Davis, a would be model, and Joyce Hagey. a fiend for parties. In the second grade a bashful hoy, David Gallo came into our class to spend the rest of his school years with us, and later become very valuable to us because of his intelligence in the electrical department. Alva Roberts, better known as Bobo, joined us in the third grade and is known for his slow and easy way of getting out of class without an excuse. Marie Briggs, a shy little girl then, also joined us. She hailed from Oklahoma, and finally got used to wearing shoes. During the last, half of the fifth grade Lloyd Bronson joined us. but he moved to Vale for his sixth year. Then we were blessed with Jack Rinehart from Halfway, who is known for his independence and dominating personality. Our sixth year rolled around and with it came a dark-haired little girl, Beverly McElvain. We had four more geniuses to enter our little intelligent group in our seventh year. They were Kay Cockrell, Violet Mayotte, and Odies Payne. Odies turned out to be an outstanding student in Social Economics. Lloyd Bronson came back and made a name for himself. It was Romeo because of his first love affair. Our last year of grade school was a memorable one. Arlene Daggett, from Elgin, came and aided to the popularity of the class. We had a hectic year and looked forward to our first year of High School. We all graduated from the elementary school with high honors and the High School looked forward to seeing us join them because of our high I. Q.s. Our Freshman year began with a bang. There were a lot of strange faces from Pondosa and our suburb, Telocaset. Two of the Pondosa group still remain with us, they are Dorothy Hay word, who is known as Mrs. Pharis Timpy, and Verlin Conner, still bashful as ever. Jimmy Hermsen, a very 'bashful boy from Baker, was received in our class, and has remained throughout the four years. He got over his bashfulness, however. Rook day was our most memorable day, but w’e enjoyed seeing the sophomores have their little fling in painting our faces with lipstick. Our Junior year came around and by this time we felt pretty important. Lucille Lewis, a little Idaho blonde, joined us and hooked one of the seniors. Also Eugene DuMars. from La Grande, joined his talents with ours. Vale gave us two of her intelligent students, Wes and Ken Wallis. Wes is our muscle man, and Ken is the brain of our class. In April, Donna Kersey, a shy little girl (we thought) from Portland. fell into our midst. Her talents included getting engaged to the available Bud Harris. Dan McLaren, a tall dark boy from Burns, known for his bright remarks, also joined us at this time. We gave the traditional Junior-Senior Banquet and Prom in April, and made the most of our class party by going on a hike to Miller Lake, and later finished the day by swimming in Cove with a picnic at the pairk. Our Senior class brought Bill Hewitt from La Grande, talented in throwing erasers. We gave our Senior Class Play and then spent the rest of the time loafing In the classrooms and study halls. Well, the time has come when dear old Union HI will lose this extraordinary group of intelligent students. We hope we are remembered throughout the coming years. • ■ :i n' J ■